alt Hacker NewsAlcohol is a poison, not a drug, but I also think so.
I honestly wish mind-altering drugs were more accessible sometimes, mostly because of safety. Millions are killed by adulterants in their street drugs.
Replies
talon8635 • yesterday at 8:26 PM
Poison is a function of dosage. Water is a poison in a high enough dose.
What’s you’re arguments it’s not a drug?
➕ show 1 reply
cobbzilla • yesterday at 9:36 PM
It’s much more of a poison to some of our primate relatives. iirc the genes that facilitate alcohol metabolism evolved in great apes millions of years before homo sapiens, and we inherited them; we’ve been boozing long before we were even human.
asphodele • yesterday at 9:51 PM
if alcohol can damage your short term memory,
Imagine what effect alcohol has
As the saying goes: “the dose makes the poison”. Many (perhaps most) drugs cause harm at the wrong dosage.